Type Inference for Struct/Enum Literals

[ryuukk_]

On Monday, 8 July 2024 at 10:45:22 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Monday, 8 July 2024 at 07:02:34 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
>> On Sunday, 7 July 2024 at 19:07:10 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 6 July 2024 at 08:04:36 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
>>>> `MySelfExplanatoryType flag = MySelfExplanatoryType.A | 
>>>> MySelfExplanatoryType.B MySelfExplanatoryType.C;`
>>>
>>> You could write:
>>> ```d
>>> auto flag = { with (MySelfExplanatoryType) return A | B | C; 
>>> }();
>>> ```
>>
>>
>> No, this syntax is just bad, it's unreadable and over 
>> engineered
>
> It's not great, but it does do what you said the point of the 
> feature was:
>
>> to avoid repetition and to make code more concise in places 
>> that are relevant
>
> I only suggest it for cases when using an alias is not 
> acceptable.

Hence the feature suggestion, because the current solutions are 
not good